Japan!
On the ferry from Busan to Fukuoka Ferda and I met a young Japanese woman who was returning to her country after two years on the road. One of the things that she missed most was nato. Indeed it is very difficult to get nato outside of Japan, and I was looking forward to tasting it again as well. So the first thing that Ferda ended up eating on her first trip to Japan was a nato roll! A tad unusual, I imagine. If you don’t know, well, nato is fermented soybeans which are kind of sticky and extremely stringy. When you take nato with your chopsticks, there’s always a long thin string of nato paste that seems to stretch infinitely. It’s interesting stuff.
Welcome to Kyushu! After a visit to an ATM and the aforementioned nato rolls — both taken care of at a 7-11 — we started our one day of sightseeing in Fukuoka, Kyushu’s largest city. It’s all fairly exciting your first day in Japan.
